Kaleidoscope
Actors animate their characters and hold you with their performances, but before they appear on stage or screen they have to be chosen. Paul Allen talks to those who do the choosing, including theatre casting director
Gillian Diamond , and Mary Selway , who has found actors for more than 80 feature films.
Producer JULIAN MAY. Stereo
Richard Baker Compares Notes
Frank Lloyd and David Pyatt.
(Stereo)
The Natural History Programme
The Natural History Programme
Start the Week
Easter is the first festival of the year and whether
You process, light candles, hold all-night vigils, take off on holiday, sport an Easter bonnet or simply dig the garden, it's a time of festivities.
Peter France is joined by a group of European celebrants to find out what it is everyone is celebrating and how they go about it.
Producer MARY PRICE BBC Bristol
File on 4
Reporter Stuart Simon Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
The Thatcher Decade
1: The First Target
Did the unions stand a chance of beating
Mrs Thatcher ? Was their decline inevitable or did they make avoidable mistakes? With the Cabinet ministers and trade union leaders involved, BBC Political Correspondent Nicholas Jones assesses one of the Prime Minister's most radical changes in the fabric of the nation.
Producer JOLYON MONSON
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The Thatcher Decade
2: The Most Important Man Bernard Ingham has been Mrs Thatcher 's Press
Secretary throughout her years in power. He has been described both as the most important man in Government and as the real Deputy Prime Minister. BBC Political
Correspondent Nicholas Jones examines his role. Producer JOLYON MONSON
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
1: The Actor-Manager Tradition
The spotlight focuses on the actor-managers of the past: Garrick, Kean,
Irving, Du Maurier, Tree, Wolfit ... why did they all turn to Shakespeare? Producer ANNE HINDS BBC Pebble Mill
The Wednesday Feature
What did neutrality mean during the Second World War?
Geoffrey Stern looks at life and politics in Sweden, Spain, Ireland and Switzerland between 1939 and 1945 and considers the price of their peace.
Producers TIM DEE and TIM SUTER
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Daily Service
Peter Mancroft, Norwich. With MICHAEL SHOESMITH. Love divine (Blaenwern); Mark 9, vv 33-41; Loving Shepherd of thy sheep
(Buckland); 0, for a closer walk with God (Stanford). Organist ROGER RAYNER.
Director of Music KENNETH RYDER. BBC Pebble Mill
Colindale's Diary
Compiled and produced by ANDREW PARFITT Stereo
The Wednesday Feature
A Journey by JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON in two parts. With and 1: Unfinished Business November 1923. RMS Hildebrand sets sail from Liverpool on a 4,000-mile voyage across the Atlantic to Brazil and up the River
Amazon to Manaos ... Directed by JOHN POWELL
Woman's Hour
With women who have successfully returned to work - singer Barbara Dickson, and Liz Bargh, Head of the Pepperell Unit of the Industrial Society. Including fashion advice from Angela Kennedy.
Serial: "Indemnity Only" by Sarah Paretsky, abridged in 12 episodes by Janet Hickson. Read by Liza Ross (6).
Reading Aloud: Neville Cardus's Cricketing Heroes
Producer Jane Morgan.
(Stereo)
Breakaway
. Nigel Coombs finds out what is on the agenda for the industry.
Ken Bruce takes a look at the attractions of Buda, while Cliff Michelmore crosses the river to Pest. Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Death of a Superpower
We've Got You over a Barrel
In Siberia, where the temperature falls to 60 below and the permafrost cloaks vast energy reserves, millions of tonnes of oil and gas are wasted because of shoddy technology and antiquated working methods. Even so, the oilfields of Russia earn half the Soviet
Union's hard currency. Gordon Clough reports from western Siberia on how the oil men could hold the Kremlin to ransom.
Producer Anne Koch
Woman's Hour
What's it like when you're left holding the baby? Sara Parker talks to fathers who have taken on the role of mothers.
A World of Love (7)
Upsetting the Applecart
Editor John Simpson , in which he looks back at the events of 1989 and 1990. Today he looks at the failed revolution of the pro-democracy protesters in China in the late spring of 1989, and wonders for how long the Chinese communist mandarins can hold on to power.
John Pilger
4: The Last Days of Saigon 'A soldier holding up a dead child by one arm stood stiffly to attention as he was photographed. It was this one image which, for me, symbolised the suffering of the Vietnamese people.' Producer Andrew Parfitt
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